{"id":428,"date":"2004-01-03T14:38:48","date_gmt":"2004-01-03T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=428"},"modified":"2004-01-03T14:38:48","modified_gmt":"2004-01-03T14:38:48","slug":"japanese-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how accurate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi-jc.com\/slang.htm\">Japanese slangs you won&#8217;t find in a dictionary<\/a> is.  You might want to run these by your japanese speaking friends first.  Here are a few words that caught my scanning eye:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nchin suru:  Microwave it.<\/p>\n<p>dasai: It means &#8220;lame.&#8221; Commonly, it is pronounced, &#8220;dassee.&#8221; Also, combined with &#8220;cho (extra-ordinary),&#8221; you could say, &#8220;cho-dassee (extra-ordinary lame).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>iku dei: It means, &#8220;I&#8217;m going.&#8221; And you need to say it quite enthusiastically for it to sound right.<\/p>\n<p>nanja korya?:  It means, &#8220;What the hell is this?&#8221; It implies a deep confusion.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how accurate the Japanese slangs you won&#8217;t find in a dictionary is. You might want to run these by your japanese speaking friends first. Here are a few words that caught my scanning eye: chin suru: Microwave it. dasai: It means &#8220;lame.&#8221; Commonly, it is pronounced, &#8220;dassee.&#8221; Also, combined with &#8220;cho (extra-ordinary),&#8221; you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}